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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1920
Page
2
The report shows estimated receipts for hogs 6 006 and cattle 5 000 with a 4 729 holdover in Chicago on opening traded day. It notes mixed grain futures with December wheat around 1 82 and corn near 5 0 per bushel, with cash wheat bids listed for multiple exchanges.
Fragmented OCR hints at a Chicago based commission merchant operation with references to Main Floor Exchange and yard ledger. Limited readable details mention brokers, a firm named Jowmn or Booms, and a dated row B7-26.
Cedar Rapids faces a milk scare as a large dairy herd supplying city milk tests positive for tuberculosis. Twenty cows slaughtered showed TB, four carcasses unusable. A linked tuberculous hog herd prompted state veterinary tests and quarantine considerations, revealing nonpasteurized milk from the farm.
The proprietor defends milk quality claiming high butter fat from a fine herd and reputable source. An investigator presses on how many babies died and how many were infected, and questions the roles and funding of the state dairy commissioner, his assistant, and the city inspector.
Pipe smoking grows among London women as shops cater with jewelled briars. In a West End theatre women puff in a box while an elderly spectator follows, and a train quarrel ends with a passenger flinging a cigarette and its gold mounted holder from a window. The magistrate notes a two guinea fine.
Misses Martha and Etta Mahanke visiting from Des Moines traveled to Tama via airplane. They were guests of Lieut. Joseph Gadbury, a former war aviator now in commercial flying out of Des Moines, who flew them back to their home city in about forty five minutes.
Hundred swine breeders and farm paper representatives gathered at Iowa State College Swine Feeders day in Ames to hear John M. Evward discuss trials on feeding and breeding. Orphan pigs can be raised with proper vitamins and balanced rations. wild boar lineages show rapid loss of desirable traits unless carefully managed. standard corn belt rations remain most economical though single experiments do not prove broad conclusions.
In Vinton Iowa a local crackdown enforces the state law banning cigarette sales to minors. J Wright and Perry Campbell pool hall and lunchroom proprietors pleaded guilty and paid 28.45 each after witnesses testified. Charles KE Hall of United Cigar Store also paid a 28.45 fine with more cases pending.
The live stock report from Iowa and the federal statistician shows cattle on farms at 4 912 000 head, hogs at 10 192 000, and sheep at 988 000 for June 30 1920. It notes milch cows around 1 353 000 and forecasts stocker and feeder cattle and hog sales to October 1 1920. A silver cradle tradition in Liverpool mayoral history ends with the council presenting the cradle to the heir born during the term.
Kentucky courts reject the family doctrine in a case where a father was not held liable for his minor son's driving of a loaned car. The piece notes federal law affords broader employee damages in interstate commerce cases, cites a Nebraska decision denying damages absent negligence, and covers Missouri and California rulings on intersections, employer liability, and a New York Herald report on a pedestrian injury.
Fort Smith Ark Nov 10 A mare trained for bootlegging and a still with 100 gal capacity were seized in a Leflore County Okla raid by federal prohibition officer John Tisdale. The horse carried whiskey in saddle bags from the still to a rendezvous where the buyer relieved it of the load.
Chicago reader Ida Owenstern reports relief from pains and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She encourages others to try the remedy and authorizes publication to help fellow women seek relief.
J B Renoux of Washington reports six month prior back pain and kidney irregularity worsened by cold and injury. He says Dana's Kidney Pills relieve attacks and attributes his recovery to this remedy. Don’t be fooled by imitators seek the genuine Dana's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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